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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Was there any way that Ottoman Empire could have save itself?

Well, in a way, the Ottoman Empire did save itself — it continued to exist as the state of Turkey. They did this, despite the wishes of the Allied powers, who wanted to totally wipe them off the map, after WWI. Ataturk, their leader, was involved in exterminating the Armenian Christians in Turkey, thus giving them cultural stability and unity. He then introduced Western reforms including using Roman script for the language, instead of Arabic, and making Turkey a truly secular society, instead of following Muslim Shariah Law. These changes allowed Turkey to Westernize and modernize, and to survive in the modern world. https://www.quora.com/Was-there-any-way-that-Ottoman-Empire-could-have-save-itself

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